Animated

Nail I

Nael I
(1972)
Director:
Screenwriter: Heino Pars
Cinematographer: Arvo Nuut
Production Designer: Georgi Štšukin
Composer: Ülo Vinter
Editor: Virve Laev
Producer: Vladimir Korinfski
Duration: 9 min
Language: No dialogue
Available formats: AVI
Colour: Colour

Festivals:

  • StopTrik International Film Festival (Maribor, Slovenia; Niepołomice, Bielsko-Biała, Poland), 2023, Retrospective: Censorship and Animation
  • Linoleum Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival (Kyiv, Ukraine), 2021
  • PÖFF – Black Nights Film Festival (Tallinn, Estonia), 2020, Programme: 101 Estonian films
  • MONSTRA – Lisbon Animated Film Festival (Portugal), 2018, Programme: Historical Short Films from Estonia
  • goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film (Wiesbaden, Germany), 2018
  • Annecy International Animation Film Festival (France), 2014, Special Programme: Stop-motion: Estonia – The Animated Dreams of Nukufilm
  • Amiens International Film Festival (France), 2011, Retrospective: Studio Nukufilm
  • Laputa International Animation Festival (Japan), 2009, Retrospective
  • Animateka – International Animated Film Festival (Ljubljana, Slovenia), 2009, Retrospective
  • ReAnimacja – International Animated Film Festival (Łodz, Poland), 2008, Retrospective
  • ANILOGUE – International Animation Film Festival (Budapest, Hungary), 2007, Estonian programme
  • Baltic Film Festival (Berlin, Germany), 2006, Focus Estland: Animation II: Puppet Debate
  • AIAF – Australian International Animation Festival (Australia), 2004
  • Melbourne International Animation Festival (Australia), 2004
  • LIAF – London International Animation Festival (Great Britain), 2004, Estonian Panorama
  • Estonian Animation Festival in New York (USA), 2003
  • FIPRESCI Symposium in Repino (USSR) , 1974
  • ANIMAFEST ZAGREB – World Festival of Animated Film (Croatia), 1974, Informative programme: diploma – for participation
  • UNITEC Film Techniques Society award, 1974, Award – for the use of new technical equipment in animation film
  • Shaken Stars – Almaty International Film Festival (Kazakhstan), 1973, 1st Prize for the Best Animation

A nail is generally known as a hard metal object, but they are the only characters of this film, presenting an extremely expressive pantomime performance. We witness the meeting of two nails, their passionate tango and a kiss, as the result of which a small nail-baby is born. In another short episode we can see a scene in the street with a quarrelsome drunk who must be disciplined by a policeman-magnetic iron. There is a circus with a lion tamer and a lion who earns an applause devouring its master. We can see a wheedling and flattering nail trying to curry favor with a bossy hammer. But all these episodes so characteristic of human nature have been expressed only by the means of nails, by giving them life.

Eesti Filmi Instituut / Estonian Film Institute
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Rain Põdra
Head of Film Heritage Department
rain@filmi.ee
Triinu Keedus
Project Manager of Film Heritage Department
triinu@filmi.ee

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